Guess the City

I have a question about the two small brown (fur?) things

I think your monitor resolution must be playing up, those looks like red herrings to me

btw i'm referring to these two, not the larger grey things

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_HSCtbm77K4/YIbYAwcKnTI/AAAAAAAAA7U/AKeaYNTtrIYtuFYaZGf4UlJMKhN_pRqqACLcBGAsYHQ/s157/Screenshot%2B2021-04-26%2B155806.png

I think I need a walk outside

I think someone used the clone tool

I just thought 'fuck it I'll go through that list alba posted but actually search the names in google maps for hi-res pics', luckily it was the second one on the list or i might have died. So, Invercargill!

https://goo.gl/maps/6FF6xn9TFopBmpvf6

Woo!!

Finally!

I thought somebody would get it fairly quickly after Alba's link especially when the introductory paragraph starts "There are 52 racecourses in New Zealand, from Ascot Park at Invercargill in the South..."

ha. I thought Dunedin and there was one that looked a bit close but didnt check Invercargill

https://www.google.com/maps/@-46.3863389,168.3496917,3a,75y,164.15h,84.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP1BxIZSMlVOn7XLGRvZx7g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

the scrapyard

does Google Streetview automatically clone tool stuff? those two identical things on the fence are there in several angles
https://www.google.com/maps/@-46.3947882,168.3941559,3a,75y,152.89h,78.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCH-4FpA0Y7lkhvKmfpSxNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

oh, it does - the white curvy bit on the fence above is doubled too

it'll be part of the stitching algorithm

Invercargill is possibly the ugliest place name I've ever heard in my life.

Truly hope the Maori take over again and call it by its rightful name, Waihōpai

The Inver- part is nice, the -Cargill part not so much.

Also it doesn't make sense unless it stands on the River Cargill, which it doesn't.

I mean, it should be called Waihōpai anyway.

Invercargill's second appearance on the thread, also appearing last April

What are the chances!

Apologies for the thread faux pas.

I guess the ugliness of the name suggests some sort of context of aesthetics thing because coming from the north of England where gill means stream and living in Scotland where Inver, as Tom D. has acknowledged, Inver means river mouth, the name doesn't read badly but without that I can certainly see how it would

I mean, it should be called Waihōpai anyway

Notwithstanding this of course

No reason a city can't make a repeat appearance!

It's interesting, Philadelphia has a LOT of Lenape (aka indigenous) names and a LOT of Welsh and Dutch names, so I'm used to some somewhat off-kilter naming situations— for example, I had many friends who went to Bala Cynwyd middle school, and I live near the Schuylkill River. I think that the residue of the Cargill corporation sort of rubs off on Invercargill and makes it more ugly than it actually is, to my eyes and ears.

the actual pictures don't make it seem very appealing either tbh

for example, I had many friends who went to Bala Cynwyd middle school

WTF?!??!

OK, so I'm just reading about the Welsh Tract...

Yeah, pretty wild, huh.

https://i.postimg.cc/43zCLv20/sinha.jpg

Thursday

Vienna?

it's Turku, Finland

https://www.google.com/maps/@60.450357,22.2776869,3a,75y,338h,105.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s637UKwlL34IcZwgV0neVkg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

can't find the shot as it was posted, but it's the exact same spot

ah, there it is, July 2014:

https://www.google.com/maps/@60.4503527,22.2776105,3a,75y,339.07h,92.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sT5TYfrSG1PxbQmkALyJ6fA!2e0!5s20140701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

How'd you get Finland?

It was obviously (Central or Northern) Europe. Found an identical Finnish traffic sign for bus + taxi lane. Then found that bus: part of the Vainion Liikenne fleet. checked the company’s Finnish Wikipedia page: active in quite a large section of the country, but I decided to try Turku first, as it was mentioned a lot (and I was guessing it wasn’t going to be Helsinki again, because we had it not too long ago), and yes, the church tower matched Turku Cathedral, so then it was off to Google Maps – found the spot quite quickly.

textbook case, I think. this thread taught me well.

bravo. this thread, even as a mostly lurker, is wonderful

Good job. I thought it might be Finland from the signs but either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_signs or Turku's end of speed limit signs need updating.

impressive!

and I was guessing it wasn’t going to be Helsinki again, because we had it not too long ago

Did we? I know we had Tampere but I don't recall Helsinki!

forgot about Tampere! But Helsinki too - I checked: 11 January.

ah yes, I see now - I think it was guessed correctly before I saw it, so it didn't register as much

https://i.postimg.cc/SxJ02mNb/Screenshot-2021-04-29-at-19-14-49.png

Thursday II

Google car has taken a hell of a wrong turn there.

Somewhere in Nevada? Bakersfield? I see those black tanker cars on road trips all the time.
(Wherever it is, doesn't look very city-like!)

That hovering thing in the front is scaffolding, so maybe somebody climbed up there for the shot?

There's a sign in the distance between the scaffolding uprights that I thought said "Mia" on the top left, but really it's too indistinct to be sure.

Needs someone with an eye for distinguishing industrial plants. I came across this pulping place in Columbus County, WA, which looks like the right kind of setting at least:

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article222997930.html

But I may be way off

Billings Montana?

If it was petrochemical, it would likely be a much more secure facility - but something is definitely either filling or pumping out those tanker cars on the tracks. And it's pretty green, not dried out like West Texas.

Here's the other side from the highway?

https://goo.gl/maps/Yd5sT3XVNk9aBid17

Turku in 29 minutes and Billings in 24. I'm going to have to wear extra hats to facilitate taking my hat off

Rad! Can't believe I got one. I spent a long two weeks in Billings one spring few years back.